The purpose of this clinical trial is to study patients with positive nodes before chemotherapy who become negative after chemotherapy to see1) if, after lumpectomy (surgery to remove cancer), radiation to the breast and lymph nodes will be better than radiation only to the breast at keeping cancer from returning, ...

The MATCH registry is a prospective, open label, multi-center observational registry with enrollment of patients requiring surgical stapling during a lobectomy or segmentectomy. Patients will be treated per the clinicians standard of care with medical history and demographic data collected pre-procedure, operative data including clinician's objective and subjective evaluation of ...

Background Seroma formation is a common problem after mastectomy. The incidence various between 30% to 92%. It is often an ongoing problem after removal of the suction drain, and repeated skin puncture is necessary to remove the seroma. In addition to many ambulatory visits this also leads to an increased ...

OBJECTIVES: - To determine the accuracy of multifunctional magnetic resonance (MR) in detecting, localizing, and characterizing satellite lesions in relation to an index breast tumor in order to improve definition of clinical target volume after local excision. OUTLINE: Patients receive an injection of gadolinium chelate and undergo multifunctional magnetic resonance ...

OBJECTIVES: Primary - To evaluate the effects of pregabalin on postoperative opioid requirements and opioid-related side effects in women undergoing mastectomy or lumpectomy. Secondary - To evaluate the effects of pregabalin on pain scores at 3 months after mastectomy or lumpectomy. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment ...

A frequent complication of mastectomy is seroma formation with rates in the literature reported at 3-50%. Although seroma formation can be considered more of a nuisance than a serious complication, the presence of seroma can lead to wound infection, skin flap necrosis, wound dehiscence, nerve injury, and lymphedema in mastectomy ...

A prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter non-inferiority study comparing standard wound closure technique with drains (control) to standard wound closure techniques with TissuGlu® and no drains (test) in mastectomy. Patients will be enrolled for 90 Days from day of Surgery. It is expected that it will take 6-9 months for the ...